Mastering the Bicycle: A Late-Blooming Triumph

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A pivotal moment for lots of kindergarteners is the day their parents take the training wheels off and they learn how to ride a bicycle on their own. This scrapbook moment came for me too; the only difference is I managed to be a licensed driver before I mastered the elementary skill. Learning to ride a bike, even at sixteen, helped me learn that not all tasks can not be mastered immediately, and the best way to success is to get back up and keep trying. Two years ago on Christmas morning, I ran into our living room only to see a shiny mint bicycle with a large red bow atop the handlebars. I do not even know how to ride a bike so why would I get a brand new one for Christmas? I guess this was my mom’s way of telling me it was finally time to learn. …show more content…

All of the other kids my age mastered this skill long ago, so I figured it would take me a couple of tries and then I would be cruising freely. I am a natural scholar and athlete, so most things come easily to me. Riding a bike, however, did not. Because of my lack of failure in the past, each failed attempt caused my frustration to grow exponentially. No matter what I tried, I just kept falling off, acquiring scratch after scratch. My grandparents were there encouraging me to continue trying, but their words only further flustered and embarrassed me. Tears flooded my face after about an hour of failure. It was cold; I was tired, embarrassed, and really over this whole bicycle thing. My family decided to give it a rest for the day and enjoy the rest of Christmas. I was humiliated and was not anywhere closer to being an official bike

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